A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, we used an EDA tool whose much touted release 9 was long delayed and when it arrived was buggier than an insectarium on steroids.

Some years later I met the team lead of that release. It was because management had mandated a complete rewrite into C++. I also learned that the CFO loved that release because revenue from maintenance contracts went up. For years.

I will watch Microsoft's future progress with considerable interest.

There's a well funded company called RRP Electronics which is working on package and test. They also have a famous cricketer as a strategic investor, whatever that means.

This RRP Semiconductor was a trading company which renamed itself and changed its business model.

As far as I can tell, the latter's revenue is nothing to write home about. And it's a Public Limited company which makes this even more weird, as those are expected to pass much more stringent criteria.

Shades of the Harshad Mehta era.

I am fat. How delightfully perspicacious of you, anoncow.

You should run an astrology or telekinesis channel or something.

Around 2002? I probably had that same scanner. Never bought HP again. Had to buy third party software to run it: Vuescan by Hamrick.

Ran it for several more years until SCSI went out of style.

In the early 70s my grandfather would turn his nose up at Japanese appliances. His gold standard were German products. Just the way my generation turned our noses up at Chinese goods, preferring Japanese and later Korean.

And so it goes.

This smells of a publicity stunt. If they launch, it will be as Bluebird.

Anyway we have Bluesky which has some interesting users. Mastodon is just too much work to find and follow interesting people. Like or not, X is where the legacy crowd still is.

I don't know enough about Baltic states and their history to venture an opinion on this aspect.

Altman is good at raising money, not running a business.

Google, with its massive data/content store, would have caught up and gone past OpenAI for sure, AND they already have a very profitable set of businesses.

This is probably the first succinct justification for the EU (and even NATO) that I've ever read.

As a non-European, it never made any sense to me that these structures needed to exist after the fall of communism in the East Bloc.

So they can build airliners but haven't heard of databases?

Excel is so opaque, how do they debug their formulae?

What I would like to know what those biometrics are and how the company monetises them.

Remember the guy who hooked up his friend's honeymoon bed to Twitter as a joke?

What do they gain from these posts? Serious question.

Is it just a distraction from the key topic: China, rare earths and the file format of the document?

China produces over 8 times more than the US.

Windows 8 was enough for our company to switch to Linux (EDA tools) and Macs.

And as older Intel Macs enter Apple's EOL list, they make excellent Linux machines.

The Soviet Union (not Russia) lost 27 million people fighting the nazis (along with compromised Poles, Romanians, Hungarians et al). Lend-lease helped them destroy close to 90% of the nazi forces before the "allies" showed up on the other front.

The real hero of WW-2 was the nazi fuhrer himself for attacking the USSR.

As for Patton, the less said the better. Stop learning history from Hollywood propaganda - as seen by Trump's cavorting in front of the US flag, straight out of the movie.

Instead, read "When Titans Clashed" by Glantz and House. Before you start trolling, know this: Glantz was a US Army military historian